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2016 The EPA "published a voluntary health advisory for PFOA and PFOS" which warned that "exposure to the chemicals at levels above 70 parts per trillion, total, could be dangerous." [71] 2016 The city of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, sued 3M a second time for polluting their drinking water with PFAS chemicals.
In 2003–2004 99.7% of Americans had detectable PFOA in their serum with an average of about 4 parts per billion, [64] and concentrations of PFOA in US serum have declined by 25% in recent years. [65] Despite a decrease in PFOA, the longer perfluorinated carboxylic acid PFNA is increasing in the blood of US consumers. [64]
Those surveyed had a range of PFOA levels from 0.2-22,412 μg/L, with a median exposure of 28.2 μg/L. [30] These levels were significantly higher than the levels detected in the general American population, which had a median exposure of 3.9μg/L. [30] Results from the study concluded that PFOA exposure was linked to pancreatic cancer and ...
The study, which was just published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, found that some smartwatch and fitness tracker bands may expose the ...
Use of various personal care products, such as nail care products, fragrances, makeup, hair dyes and hair sprays, by pregnant women and lactating mothers has been shown to be associated with significantly higher levels of PFAS in the blood and breastmilk of the mothers.
PFOA isn't the only chemical that can appear in your water, and the effects of many unregulated chemicals still haven't been explored. An effective water filtration system will weed out chemicals ...
PFOA and PFOS are found in every American person’s blood stream in the parts per billion range, though those concentrations have decreased by 70% for PFOA and 84% for PFOS between 1999 and 2014, which coincides with the end of the production and phase out of PFOA and PFOS in the US. [3] The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Simply Orange Juice is accused of deceiving health-conscious customers into believing one of its juices is “all natural” as labeled — but it’s not, a class-action lawsuit says.